Comments on: Why IE doesn't play nicely

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 16:48:18 +0000

I have downloaded IE7 Beta 3 and am having a real tussle with it: on my MacBook Pro, setup with bootcamp it runs absolutely fine, but on my PC it was impossible; when you started it, it ran up 97% of the CPU processes and never went anywhere. I have had to uninstall it – no mean feat!
Also, I am glad that IE will render PNGs (more) properly, but is anyone else having trouble with Firefox 2 Beta 1 not handling them as well as 1.5 used to?

By: Paul Boag

Paul Boag — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 18:34:41 +0000

Yeah it is definately possible. Simply enter the computer name of the web server into the address bar of your browser. E.g. http://PaulsLaptop/

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 08:53:46 +0000

Just downloaded VirtualPC and installed it on my Windows partition on my MacBookPro and I think it’s excellent, and I’m sure VMWare would be just as good. I’ve set up 3 virtual machines – win95 was a challenge my MBP doesn’t have a floppy drive! Managed to find a copy of the boot disk to cinvert to a virtual disk.
Anyway, my question is this: is it possible to set up a local webserver on the host machine which I then access pages via my virtual machines, or can you only test online?

By: David Lowry

David Lowry — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:43:26 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t you have to have
another Windows license for each copy of Windows you
install in a virtual machine?
If it wasn’t free you would still have to pay for the licensing.
Oh you’re saying about multiple simultaneous copies of XP (for example) – I’m not sure if you do or not, it’s a legal fuzzy because you can only use one copy of the OS at any one time (interactively that is) and it’s installed on a single hardware box…..
Fuzzy!

By: aldo

aldo — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 16:23:51 +0000

I was browsing using IE 5, the other day and went to MSN.com and that site is jacked up by this browser but why? Microsoft must not care about it anymore or bad design approach i dunno :o).

By: Ronalfy

Ronalfy — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 20:04:32 +0000

I installed IE 7 Beta 3 to test a new layout. I had to use windows restore because it caused MS Money 2006 to not work. At least I know my new layout works :)

By: Richard Davies

Richard Davies — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:20:37 +0000

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you have to have another Windows license for each copy of Windows you install in a virtual machine? Kind of negates the benefit of making VirtualPC free, doesn't it? Why should we have to pay Microsoft extra money in order to test multiple versions of their crappy browsers?

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 04:36:58 +0000

I installed IE7 Beta 3 on my computer at work and I haven't had any problems with it whatsoever. The only problem I had was uninstalliong Beta 2 so that I could install Beta 3. Also, could someone post up some links to where I can download older versions of Internet Explorer please? Thanks!

By: Tim McCormack

Tim McCormack — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:45:20 +0000

If I can run IE 6 on Linux using Wine, I can't believe it's so hard to run multiple versions of IE under Windows.

By: Christian Ready

Christian Ready — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 01:35:12 +0000

I got the free VMWare (it don't cost a pence) and it works very well. I created two virtual machines, one with Windows 2000 running IE 5 SP2 and another running Windows XP with IE7 Beta 2. I haven't tried Beta 3 yet based on some of the problems I've heard about it.